Genesis 11: The Tower of Babel

[Candid post alert!]

Usually when I quote from the Word of God (not counting the sermon notes posts I've been putting forth since January), I have things to say, and analyses and insights to share. Not this time. Today I'm just too tired to put together an argument. With the rise in disinformation about COVID, worldwide shutdowns, government crackdowns, and vaccinations, and most concerningly, the widespread and thorough brainwashing and deception on these topics, the world appears on a fast track toward "one world power." My opinions about other events over the last year-plus aside, the two that concern me the most are 1.) a consolidation of power, particularly between our government and us as citizens (the government taking away our rights and freedoms to exercise our own judgments, all for heinously wrong reasons); and 2.) impending persecution on Biblical Christianity (also all for heinously wrong reasons).

The below passage describes to me where pro-worldly humanity not only wants to go but is actively and aggressively pushing to go:

The Tower of Babel

1 Now the whole world had one language and a common speech. 2 As people moved eastward,[a] they found a plain in Shinar[b] and settled there.

3 They said to each other, “Come, let’s make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They used brick instead of stone, and tar for mortar. 4 Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens, so that we may make a name for ourselves; otherwise we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

5 But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower the people were building. 6 The Lord said, “If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. 7 Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other.”

8 So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city. 9 That is why it was called Babel[c]—because there the Lord confused the language of the whole world. From there the Lord scattered them over the face of the whole earth.

Genesis 11:1-8, NIV

The Word of God is always sufficient, but even today, I have nothing else to add. We've been here before. And we are inconceivably choosing not to learn from our own history.